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“PEOs are not actually in statute anywhere. They don't exist in law. We made them up because the rule is that the sec def gets to determine what that looks like.”

“As soon as you've got that long-term budget, there's a perverse incentive to just to maintain and create inertia.”

“We, the Department of Defense, are certainly not in twenty-twenty-five who is building the best maps, we're not building the best data platforms, we're not building the best API gateways, so let's not pretend it, let's just get all those pieces together and co…”

“And that is a failure that we, as the Department of Defense, and really in anybody who's done federal acquisition, Sort of falls into the trap of where if you came up and you won a program, I expect you to deliver every part of that top to bottom, even the stu…”

“It's not one company, it's not Miller Corp that's gonna solve autonomy. It's how do we get the right tool chain in place from SIM all the way through VNV? And then how do we get the right actions and the right libraries? And how do we get ourselves off of this…”

“Stop trying to use the Department of Defense as your only means of revenue. And I mean that because if you get complacent with the Department of Defense, then you are no longer actually on the quest that you were on. And it's just not, it's not good. We want t…”

“This is not a technology problem. This is a culture and a process problem that we can apply technology to.”

“Most companies don't have 60 years of policy and rules that were written generally by enthusiasts and visionaries, but implemented by minimalists. And what I mean by that is risk minimalists.”

“The Army is the service that can do that because you can move around the edges of some of your ships. The Air Force can move around the edges of some of the aircraft. The capital assets, those are fixed. What I have the luxury in the Army is, like, we can modi…”

“Now, today, the Army is only 21% of the defense budget. We are everywhere. We, the Army, are everywhere. And again, this is gonna sound a little parochial, but we're on the border. We're the Global Response Force. We're the Immediate Response Force. We're the …”

“So we're gonna take that next generation command and control into, you know, get that on contract and start moving forward and get that fielded to one of our divisions this year.”

“In the sixties and seventies coming out of the cold war and all the way up to the nineties, we had all these different things, the Packard commission for how you think about buying things, the Klinger Cohen for how you do information technology, Goldwater Nich…”

“We had 17 programs of record in this mission command enterprise, and each one did sort of similar things in the fact that each one of them had a map. Humans like pixels. We're really good at seeing pixels. They make us happy. So we looked at maps. Well, each o…”

“This year we are going to put the consortium for the Army's next generation command and control into its program phase.”

“We are going to Put together a consortium for autonomy.”